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TALK SOON
Hothouse is a developmental workshop for new plays created by Women's Project Lab artists. Commissioned by Women’s Project with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Talk Soon is a multi-disciplinary performance piece that examines how people connect distances and establish identity in the digital age.In an imagined future, the story follows the accidental death of a woman and the evolving remnants of her actual and virtual life.
CREATIVE TEAM
The Playwright 
JOY TOMASKO is the 2009 Playwright-in-Residence at Women's Project, where her multi-disciplinary performance piece Talk Soon is in development with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts. Her play Unfold Me was presented off-Broadway at Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival. My End has been developed at The Lark, Soho Think Tank, The Playwrights Center and most recently in Minneapolis at Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts with new music composed by Andrew Lynch. Arden was workshopped in June 2009 at The Playwrights Center. Site-specific work includes Rose Pie for the Community Garden on Ave. B and Keep The Change co-written with playwright Christina Gorman for Women's Project and the World Financial Center. Joy worked as a writer alongside Cuban playwright Agnieska Hernandez on the US-Cuba collaboration The Closest Farthest Away/Entrañable Lejanía, a theater/film hybrid premiering at the Havana Film Festival in December 2009, and in Miami in February 2010. A Women's Project Lab Alumni, Joy received her MFA from CalArts. She was a 2008 MacDowell Colony Fellow and a 2008-2009 Jerome Fellow. She recently attended the AROHO Foundation writer’s retreat in Abiquiu, New Mexico as the recipient of a Creative Woman Scholarship.
The Director
MEIYIN WANG is a Singaporean director based in New York. Recent credits include Reluctant (HERE, Joe’s Pub). M4M (chashama); Scratch/Medea (CSV Center ); Rehearsal Vanya (INTAR); Dead Letter Office (HERE Arts Center, Trifecta Festival) and Cleansed (Columbia Stages). In Singapore, Betrayal ( National Premiere, Singapore Repertory Theatre); Postcards from Persephone (Best Director finalist for Singapore Theater Awards). She has developed work/directed/ at World Financial Center, Long Beach Opera, Women’s Project, Classic Stage Company, American Repertory Theater, Hong Kong International Festival, Premio Dams Festival, The Public Theater. She is currently associate producer of Under The Radar Festival. M.F.A Directing, Columbia University.
The Choregrapher
MARTHA MASON has a choreographic, performance and teaching career spanning 23 years, including such highlights as choreographing Heiner Mueller’s The Battle in Russia, The Mighty Casey for the Lancaster Opera, and Simon Says (dir. by Myriam Cyr) at the Boston Center for the Arts. During the past 10 years, she has created over 40 works as Artistic Director of Snappy Dance Theater (www.snappydance.com), a collaborative, national and international touring dance company based in Boston. Currently Martha is working independently as a director and choreographer. In 2009, she worked with Israeli director Julia Pevzner as choreographer for Gogol’s The Nose at Opera Boston. She is also being commissioned to choreograph a new opera by Mohammed Fairouz to be performed 2010.
Before moving to Boston in 1993, Martha danced professionally in Paris and in New York City. While in New York, she performed with Dance Brazil, Chen & Dancers, Rebecca Kelly and five years as a “clownerina” with Mark Stolzenberg in a regionally touring, two-person ballet-theatre show entitled, Pierrot & Pirouette”, which enjoyed a three-month off-Broadway run. She is the recipient of a NEFA “New Forms” award and has received numerous awards from the International Theater Institute, the LEF Foundation the Somerville and Cambridge Arts Councils, and in 1997 she received a Somerville Arts Lottery Fellowship Award. A renowned Pilates instructor, Martha was a guest teacher at the Roy Hart Theatre in Malerargues, France in 2001, taught on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory, and for 16 years, ran her own Pilates Studio. She is currently a partner at Upward Spiral Studio, LLC, teaching Pilates and Gyrotonic® in Cambridge.
The Media Designer
WENDY RICHMOND is a visual artist, author and educator whose work explores issues of personal privacy, technology and creativity in contemporary culture. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a background in fine arts, design and dance, Wendy began mixing traditional media with new technology at MIT’s Visible Language Workshop. She collaborated with programmers in pioneering work at MIT’s Media Lab, and co-founded the Design Lab at WGBH in Boston. She received her Master’s degree at New York University. Wendy’s photographs, videos, installations and collaborative works have been exhibited internationally. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a LEF Foundation grant, the Hatch Award for Creative Excellence, and numerous art and design awards. “Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone” was first shown at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and was presented at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Summit conference in Washington, DC, and Carroll and Sons in Boston. Her work was recently featured in the New York Times and on NY1 television, and she was profiled in Wesleyan Magazine. She is currently developing a new body of work titled “Overheard,” and is collaborating with a choreographer, playwright and sound/multimedia artist on several new interdisciplinary theater works.
Wendy has taught at MIT, International Center of Photography in New York, and Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she co-created courses in expression and media. She is a contributing editor at Communications Arts magazine; her regular column “Design Culture” began in 1984. She is the author of Design & Technology: Erasing the Boundaries (Van Nostrand Reinhold) and Overneath, a collaboration of photography and dance. Her new book, Art Without Compromise*, will be published by Allworth Press in the fall.
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